CULTURE

Eight photos of the quirkiest groups in 70s and 80s US

Neal Slavin(Credit: Neal Slavin)Celebrating "the joy of being together ", here are eight group portraits – taken by photographer Neal…

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How female action stars have wowed through the ages

Eureka EntertainmentThere's long been a misconception that action films are a masculine domain. But female strength and agility have been…

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Blitz and the truth about London’s greatest wartime horror

Apple TV+Oscar-winner Steve McQueen's latest film offers a new perspective on life in the capital during the devastating 1940-41 Nazi…

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The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft

NetflixWhen Mats Steen died at the age of 25 in 2014 from a degenerative muscular disease, his parents, Robert and…

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The Booker Prize-winning writer whose novels unbutton the sex lives of Britain’s gay social elite

BBC(Credit: BBC)Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of affluent gay…

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How Monet’s paintings changed the way we see London

Christie’s ImagesA new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw…

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How James Cameron’s ‘science-fiction slasher film’ predicted our fears about AI, 40 years ago

AlamyStarring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1984 blockbuster The Terminator has become synonymous with the dangers of superintelligent machines. But it "helps…

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How a shocking drag queen became a mainstream icon

Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)The late muse of director John Waters, Divine delighted in inspiring outrage and disgust on and off…

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Six books to help understand the US and its politics

Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company(Credit: Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton…

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The Grace of Phantom Pain

I dread mornings. I wake to a world without my daughter in it. Jess died nine years ago. She was…

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